The Whine thread.

[TPoptarts]

Because if you go vindictive on a boss then suddenly people will have designated parking spots

[Linda]

And that will be a GOOD thing because no one will be taking your spot.

[TPoptarts]

^ Cuz your unemployed ass will be permanently parked in your own driveway.

[Linda]

LOL, T'Poptarts, I am pulling your leg. But Distracted's boss would not fire her over a parking space, not at the professional level she is employed at (if that is the only difference of opinion they have). Might shoot her, but not fire her! I hear that has happened at universities recently... We have parking checkers at the university I work at, and in-car meters. That is why I take the bus.

[TPoptarts]

But Distracted's boss would not fire her over a parking space, not at the professional level she is employed at (if that is the only difference of opinion they have). Might shoot her, but not fire her!

Yikes!! I'd walk the frelling quarter mile. Better than getting shot over a parking spot jeez Distracted your workplace sounds almost as bad as mine

[CX]

"None of the other staff have designated parking spaces even though they pay the same fee for parking"

If the University of North Dakota has it, why wouldn't a bigger school? Not only do the Admins have designated parking, but the staff have designated spots, and the students are divided up into specific lots too, and the parking people are very unforgiving here.

[blacknblue]

"None of the other staff have designated parking spaces even though they pay the same fee for parking"

If the University of North Dakota has it, why wouldn't a bigger school? Not only do the Admins have designated parking, but the staff have designated spots, and the students are divided up into specific lots too, and the parking people are very unforgiving here.

None of the other staff are licensed physicians either, are they?

Shit. Your boss needs a lesson in real life. They have obviously been part of the ivory tower world too long. In real life, with rank cometh privilege. In real life, doctors have privilieges that are not granted to the great unwashed. Why? Because doctors carry loads and responsibiities that the great unwashed don't have to deal with. In an inadequate but well intentioned attempt at compensation, doctors are routinely awarded some perks like special parking privilieges that ordinary mortals don't get. So what?

Tell your boss, the next time they give you any lip, to back off. And if they think they can find another physician with your qualifications who would be willing to take the job, with the same level of responsibility, and be willing to put up with the same degree of shit, for the same money, by all means feel free.

You are a doctor Dis. You will never be in danger of unemployment. You know that. You can always hang out a shingle, or go part-time at a hospital can't you? Or something like that? I am sure that there is a part-time, semi-retired option for a doctor that doesn't want to run the full scale rat race. There has to be.

[Distracted]

Yep. It's called a "Doc in the Box"... otherwise known as an outpatient walk-in clinic. I'd probably get paid more there, too. The drawback is that unless I start the business myself I'd be stuck working the shifts that the docs who own shares in the business don't want... nights and weekends. Starting up and running a walk-in clinic is a nightmare. I've done it. It takes months before you even begin to make enough to cover overhead, much less recoup your investment. So I can either keep my nice 8 to 5 weekday job and put up with all this or chunk it and work when my kids and my husband are all home. It's a trade off.

My boss has an MD, too, but she used to be a nurse and she's always harping about all of us being "equal members of the team". I guess I can see her point to some degree, but since it's my ass and my license on the line if somebody screws up, I really don't think it's unreasonable to expect some leeway as far as perks go. I'm not trying to be God or anything. I just want a place to park.

[TPoptarts]

Well considering that you worked like way harder than the nurses did to get your MD I'd say you deserve it

[Distracted]

But...you don't understand. It's not PC to claim that people who work harder should get more. Everything should be shared equally, no matter how hard we work for it. That's why "rich" people pay taxes, so we can support the poor downtrodden unwed mothers who get disability benefits because of their "nerves" and welfare benefits for their seven illegitimate children.

[TPoptarts]

Poor and middle class people pay taxes too

Well and I don't see no "unwed mothers on welfare" with a designated parking spot.

Um and poor dysfunctional ass-bustingly hard working yet benefitless girl here

[Distracted]

Poor and middle class people pay taxes too

Yep. We're all supporting the people that are too lazy to work. I just do it at a much higher percentage than some.

I think that if I knew a member of the hardworking poor, I'd advise them to try to get benefits. I'd actually feel better, because at least then I'd know that somebody actually deserved to get what my tax money's being used for. And yeah, I doubt any member of the working poor gets a reserved parking space. That parking space is really a good trade for all the taxes I paid last year, lemme tell ya.

[blacknblue]

Egad Dis, you struck a nerve. That was my downfall. I worked. I started working when I was fifteen, digging ditches for a real estate developer. I worked my way through high school. ThenI worked my way through college, along with a scholarship and my parent's money that they couldn't afford. Then I worked my way through raising our children by doing my main job and free-lancing at tech writing and/or tech illustrating on the side, along with farm labor, and carpentry, and more brute manual labor. Whatever I could get to help pay the bills. I generally spent about 70-80 hours a week for most of my adult life on some kind of job.

Then I started feeling bad. I went to my doctor and he told me I was depressed and stressed out. He advised me to cut back on hours and eat better. Then he handed me me a big bill and sent me on my way. The next morning ( I shit you not, it was literally the very next morning) I walked into work and dropped in my tracks with a massive coronary. My ticker quit pumping twice in the ambulance on the way to the ER.

My employer supposedly had disability insurance. But my cardiologist refused to call me disabled. Didn't want to make himself look bad I guess by bad mouthing his own handiwork, and hated to mention the other things wrong with me since it wasn't his specialty. Turns out I have a few other things wrong with me too. A long list of them. But according to the employer's insurance, they weren't about to pay anything since I didn't have a physician willing to go out on a limb and swear I was too sick to work.

Social Security wasn't about to give benefits to a 40 year old man. Not gonna happen.

For three years I had no income of any kind. Not state benefits. Not workman's comp. Not local. Not federal. Nothing but help from family and local charities.

Finally got it in front of a federal judge. Two days later he issued a summary judgment in my favor. Didn't even bother to hold a hearing. Said the evidence was "obviously sufficient" to render a judgment and ripped the Soc. Sec. admin a new asshole for "sharp shooting the evidence" in order to "pick and choose" what the wanted it to show.

So I ended up getting a check for three years back pay. But without any benefits I spent most of those three years (metaphorically speaking) on my knees begging various doctors and clinics for the altace, nitro-glycerin, lipitor, toprol, etc. that I needed to stay alive. The obvious strategy was to hope that I died before the judge had time to make a ruling

This is the way it really works. Benefits are not so easy to obtain as a lot of people think they are.

[evcake]

This is the way it really works. Benefits are not so easy to obtain as a lot of people think they are.

This is true. My mother raised three of us mostly on her own. Unemployable because of a host of problems, she had to go through a lot of hoops to get what little help she got from the government. Boxes of cheese, cornmeal, canned meat (this was before foodstamps.) She shopped for our clothes at St. Vincent de Paul, ect. Took a lot of work and creative thinking.

Hope you're feeling better these days, BnB

[Distracted]

That's the thing. Why are benefits so darned hard to get for someone who really deserves them, like BnB, and yet all it takes is a trip to the social worker and some welfare mother ends up getting disability benefits for ALL of her kids for things like Attention Deficit Disorder and Oppositional Defiant Disorder while she collects because she's got diabetes (forget the fact that she's eaten her way into the condition trading her foodstamps in for cash so she can go to McDonalds seven days a week)? There's something SERIOUSLY wrong with the system. My father in law was a lawyer. He worked hard his entire life. At 55, he got cancer of the tongue and had half of it removed. He could no longer practice law because he couldn't speak clearly, but he couldn't get disability benefits because he was still capable of employment. Then he went into renal failure and ended up on dialysis due to malignant hypertension. It took over a YEAR for him to convince a doctor to declare him disabled! It honestly makes no sense. I really think that if we didn't have so many able-bodied people scamming the system (and breeding new generations to do the same), we'd have more funds to support people who really need support. Maybe even a little left over to provide affordable and reliable childcare (and birth control!) for the welfare mothers who genuinely WANT to work. JMO.